The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

first edition

1986·New York

by LLOSA, Mario Vargas (novel); MAC ADAM, Alfred (translation)

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. A novel set "in the Peru of the near future, a country in the throes of an insurgency pitting a Cuban-Bolivian-backed revolutionary army against a failing Lima government and the U.S. Marines" (from the front flap). First published in Spainsh two years prior under the title La Historia de Mayta. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 310, [2]pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a single small adhesive strip from an old mylar protector at upper spine on verso. (Inventory #: 29878)

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